Innovative Technology Trends: Connected, Collaborated Information

Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, leads a panel about technology trends. The panelists include: Margret Schmidt (Vice President of Design and Engineering & Chief Design Officer at Tivo), Cynthia Stoddard (Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer at NetApp), and Prith Banerjee (Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Schneider Electric). Tim asks the following questions: 1. What are the primary tools that you use for collaboration and productivity? 2. In the period of time that you’ve been using these tools, what have you learned about the process? 3. Because you have to deal with multiple tools, how do you determine what tool is used at what level? 4. Do you find that certain groups gravitate to one tool over another? 5. How do you organize the collaboration process? 6. Is Skype a good low-level tool? 7. Is trust an important part of the productivity process?